Guild Wars takes the best elements of today's massively multiplayer
online games and combines them with a new mission-based design that
eliminates some of the more tedious aspects of those games. You can
meet new friends in towns or outposts, form a party, and then go tackle
a quest together. Your party always has its own unique copy of the
quest map, so camping, kill-stealing, and long lines to complete quests
are all things of the past. Within a Guild Wars quest you have
unprecedented freedom and power to manipulate the world around you;
with the dynamic quest system, your accomplishments have a unique
influence on your future.

You don't have to spend countless hours on a leveling treadmill
to get to the interesting parts of the game, because combat is designed
to be strategically interesting and challenging right from the
beginning. You don't have to spend hours running around the world to
prepare for a quest, because Guild Wars allows you to instantly travel
to the beginning of any quest that you've previously unlocked. You'll
never spend days playing, only to discover that the choices you made
early have left you with a permanently uncompetitive character. The
unique skill system in Guild Wars encourages infinite experimentation
but doesn't allow early choices to limit a character. And you'll never
meet new players only to discover that you can't play with them or
compete against them because their characters are on a different server
than yours; in Guild Wars, all characters live in one seamless world.

A Variety of Choices

Guild Wars heroes come in all types: male and female, large and
small, and in any of 36 combinations of the six professions: Warrior,
Ranger, Monk, Elementalist, Mesmer, and Necromancer. With more than 150
unique skills per character, which can be combined for any number of
effects, the possibilities are mind boggling.

In addition, you can create up to four heroes per unique Guild Wars
account. New heroes can be deleted and created at any time, allowing
you to create specialized characters or to have fun experimenting with
profession combinations, skills, and attributes until you create the
hero that suits you best.

Built for Competition

If you like Player-versus-Player competition, Guild Wars was made
for you. In addition to building up a character by undergoing missions
and quests, you can choose to create a character specifically for
head-to-head PvP competition or guild warfare. The game is designed to
reward player skill and teamwork, not time spent playing, so you won't
need to spend hundreds of hours leveling up your character to compete.

The game includes integrated support for guilds, with the ability to
create unique guild emblems, to acquire guild halls, and to keep in
touch through in-game guild messaging. Guilds can challenge other
guilds to battle, compete for control of key parts of the world, and be
ranked on a worldwide ladder.

Heading Unique Streaming Technology

ArenaNet's unique streaming technology forever eliminates the
concept of patching a game. You don't have to wait a month for the next
big patch to experience new content. Instead, the game constantly and
intelligently streams new content to your computer in the background
while you play. The world can and will change continually. This allows
you to experience a much more dynamic game world than any that has
existed before.